Matt Jenkins’ article updating the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA’s) pipeline project unfortunately promulgated some myths which SNWA has been pushing in Nevada and Utah (HCN, 10/12/09). Jenkins did hit the target when he linked the negotiations over the Nevada/Utah shared water agreement with the proposed Lake Powell pipeline to St. George. It was the […]
Susan Lynn
Posted inJanuary 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
Water wishes
I admired the foresight of many of your Western “Wishers” for Obama. However, none of them mentioned water (HCN, 12/22/08). Great Basin Water Network seeks an end to giant water pipelines, the ones that take water from the West’s magnificent landscapes, wildlife, livestock and crops and send that water to unsustainable urban sprawl. The environmental, […]
Posted inMay 15, 1995: Dog and pony show about salmon and owls
The result of groundwater pumping is obvious in Nevada, too
Dear HCN, We read with great interest and a sense of déja` vu Steve Stuebner’s article on the Big Lost River being dewatered due to groundwater pumping (HCN, 2/20/95). Déja` vu because here in Nevada we are dealing with the imminent collapse of a desert lake ecosystem, and groundwater pumping for agriculture is playing an […]